Territories of poverty : rethinking North and South / edited by Ananya Roy, Emma Shaw Crane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roy, Ananya, editor.

Crane, Emma Shaw, editor.

Series:

Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 24.

Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty.

Equality.

Poor--Political activity.

Poor.

Public welfare.

Economic assistance, Domestic.

Economic assistance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div><P><I>Territories of Poverty</I> challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people's movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean c

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface: Why Territories of Poverty Now?; Introduction: The Aporias of Poverty; Section 1 Programs of Government; What Kind of Problem Is Poverty? The Archeology of an Idea; Representation: An Archeology of Poverty for the Present; Is Poverty a Global Security Threat?; Paying for Good Behavior: Cash Transfer Policies in the Wild; Data-Mining for Development? Poverty, Payment, and Platform; Representation: Fast Policy in a Mobile World; Section 2 The Ethics of Encounter; Disaster Markets and the Poverty Factory; Representation: The Privatization of Everything?

Our Past, Your Future: Evangelical Missionaries and the Script of ProsperityRepresentation: Moving Beyond the Geography of Privilege; The Duration of Inequality: Limits, Liability, and the Historical Specificity of Poverty; Funding the Other California: An Anatomy of Consensus and Consent; Section 3 Geographies of Penality and Risk; Class, Ethnicity, and State in the Making of Marginality: Revisiting Territories of Urban Relegation; Representation: Poverty Action in Neighborhoods of Relegation

From Poor Peripheries to Sectarian Frontiers: Planning, Development, and the Spatial Production of Sectarianism in BeirutGray Areas: The War on Poverty at Home and Abroad; Spatializing Citizenship and the Informal Public; Representation: The Bridge between Design and Poverty Action; Conclusion: Theory Should Ride the Bus; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8203-4844-9

OCLC:

930760342